Saturday 22 January 2011

Electric lamp sells for £445,000 after it is revealed to be a 2,000-year-old relic


I wish I could find something like that at home....

t was bought by a European dealer and could conceivably be returned to Rome. The 19in urn was acquired in the 1950s by Sir Sydney Barratt, a distinguished scientist who helped create the World War II Dambusters’ celebrated ‘bouncing bombs’. 

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1349259/Electric-lamp-sells-445k-revealed-2k-year-old-relic.html#ixzz1BmahiEsb

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